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Arabic
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English malt .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /mɒlt/ ( i.e., as in English )
Noun
مَلْت • (malt ) m
( nonstandard ) malt
Usage notes
The most usual way to refer to malt is by referring to the superordinate concept شَعِير ( šaʕīr , “ barley ” ) .
Declension
Declension of noun مَلْت (malt )
Singular
basic singular triptote
Indefinite
Definite
Construct
Informal
مَلْت malt
الْمَلْت al-malt
مَلْت malt
Nominative
مَلْتٌ maltun
الْمَلْتُ al-maltu
مَلْتُ maltu
Accusative
مَلْتًا maltan
الْمَلْتَ al-malta
مَلْتَ malta
Genitive
مَلْتٍ maltin
الْمَلْتِ al-malti
مَلْتِ malti
Etymology 2
Verb
ملت (form I )
مِلْتُ ( miltu ) /mil.tu/ : first-person singular past active / passive of مَالَ ( māla )
مِلْتَ ( milta ) /mil.ta/ : second-person masculine singular past active / passive of مَالَ ( māla )
مِلْتِ ( milti ) /mil.ti/ : second-person feminine singular past active / passive of مَالَ ( māla )
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة ( milla ) .
Noun
ملت • (millet )
nation , people
religious community
Derived terms
Descendants
Pashto
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة ( milla ) .
Noun
ملت • (millát ) m
nation
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة ( milla ) .
Pronunciation
Readings
Classical reading?
millat
Dari reading?
millat
Iranian reading?
mellat
Tajik reading?
millat
Noun
Dari
ملت
Iranian Persian
Tajik
миллат
مِلَّت • (mellat ) (plural ملل ( melal ) or ملتها ( mellat-hâ ) )
nation , people
( archaic ) religious community
c. 1260s , Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī , translated by Reynold A. Nicholson , مثنوی معنوی , volume I, verse 3504:که از آن سو جملهی ملت یکی ست صد هزاران سال و یک ساعت یکی ست ki az ân su jumla-i-millat yaki-st sad hazaran sâl u yak sâ'at yaki-st For beyond (the realm of contraries) all religion is one: hundreds of thousands of years are the same as a single hour.
Descendants
→ Bengali: মিল্লত ( millot )
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: मिल्लत ( millat )
Urdu: مِلَّت ( millat )
→ Punjabi:
Shahmukhi script: مِلَّت ( millat )
→ Sindhi: ملت